The Last Gentleman: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0312243081
- ISBN-13
- 9780312243081
- Series
- The Last Gentleman
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 409
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-09-04
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Walker Percy
Description
Will Barrett is the last gentleman, a twenty-five-year-old wanderer from the south living in New York City with no plans for the future and detached from his past---Then!!
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